Sep 6, 2017
Great Northwest summer adventure. Visit with Mike and family, “surrounded by acres of clams.” Mica closes her sports bar in Kent and prepares to open a steak house in Des Moines. Visit with Barry and family in Port Orchard, surrounded by acres of Northwest forest. Laana and I go shopping for Shane. Total eclipse of the sun in Woodburn, OR. Tumwater Falls Park, site of the “first American colony on Puget Sound.” Say what?!? Ferry to Seattle. Chinatown. Back to Mike’s; 1927 Masonic Retirement Center.
Aug 15, 2017
Garden with more mammals than flowers. Down the block, rare roadrunner siting. Hummingbird. Collective 70th birthday party at Maureen’s. Night-blooming cereus. Apple tree loses a limb. Gang of 4 (raccoons).
Jul 30, 2017
Stroll through LACMA. Dinner with Cliffs, Junior and Senior. Garden with birds, mammals, starry white epiphyllum (Epiphyllum Strictum) and night-blooming cereus. South Bay WordPress Meetup. Lunch with Sammy and Marie and Sara and Graeme.
Jul 14, 2017
Stars and such – July 4 fireworks and epiphyllum blooms. EastLos on the Gold Line, with anti-Trump demonstrators and Anime Convention attendees. Art at Union Station. Metropolitan Detention Center. Little Tokyo/Arts District. Mariachi Plaza with BJ. Pozole at Yeya’s. Lucha Reyes statue. Perched humming bird. Garden with cactus flowers, cherry tomatoes, pepper. Gish Bac with Camille and BJ.
Jul 1, 2017
Garden with grapes, cherry tomatoes, black phoebe, Fernando and night-blooming cereus. WP Meetup. Linda Lack at International Association of Yoga Therapists. With Stephen at the Norton Simon.
